Rue McClanahan Quotes

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

Isn't it interesting how the sounds are the same for an awful nightmare and great sex?

Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count.

I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.

I didn't know anything about breast cancer when I got it.

Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs.

We have one cat. I had eight cats and six dogs in Los Angeles.

Broadway producers are happy to have a big Hollywood name they can post on the marquee, but most of them assume that television and film stars really can't handle stage work. Too often, they're right.

I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.

The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to.

I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance.